Agencies

New revenue, same headcount.

We are the white-label production layer under your agency. You sell the volume work your clients are asking for, and win new accounts with finished-looking work in the pitch. We produce it, under your name. Your team stays the size it is.

1 product frame × 5 moments = a pitch set in an afternoon

product frame
A matte black insulated water bottle with a brushed steel cap on a plain light grey studio background
morning routine
The same bottle on a marble kitchen counter in morning light beside a coffee cup and a bowl of citrus fruit
city carry
A hand holding the same bottle up on a city pavement with blurred shopfronts and passers-by behind
A handfulPitch frames in a prospect's brand, made by your team in an afternoon
HundredsAd versions for one campaign. Inchcape: 180 for six markets in a week
ThousandsPersonal videos, one for each person. Sun Life's agents made 5,000+ of their own in about two weeks

Partners

Who already works this way?

Agency partner Havas Media Hong Kong

Several projects in. Every one new revenue.

Havas Media Hong Kong brings us into its client work as the production layer. Their teams keep the strategy and the client.

Ours runs production, so the agency takes on more work without growing the team.

Start the same way

The problem

Why does volume work stall at the proposal?

Every ad platform now needs a steady supply of new ads, and clients know it. They ask for forty versions of an ad, twelve markets, a video for every product.

The ideas are still yours to sell. The volume behind them is the problem. A small creative team cannot produce it at agency margins, so the programme stalls at the proposal.

one category's feed
Eight seconds of one category's feed. Every clip in it belongs to a content programme that is already running.

The revenue

What brings in the new revenue?

01

Win the pitch.

A pitch set in the prospect's brand costs an afternoon. You can work up every name on the new-business list.

02

Deliver the volume.

Forty versions, twelve markets, a video for every product. The briefs your team could not produce at agency margins become work you take.

03

Grow the account.

Start with one market. The next market is the same campaign adapted, so each expansion is a smaller ask than the first.

The headcount

Why does the team stay the same size?

Production is the part of the work that grows with people. We take that part. Your strategists, creatives and account leads spend their time on direction, judgement and the client, across more accounts.

You billedYou bill instead
Production hoursThe workflow build
Assets deliveredThe programme retainer
Revisions and reshootsThe testing programme

The work does not disappear. It moves from producing each asset to designing and running the system that produces them.

The pitch

What do you bring to the pitch?

A small set of finished-looking work in the prospect's own brand, on screen, before they have agreed to anything. Their website, their catalogue and their last campaign are enough to build it.

product frameA matte black insulated water bottle with a brushed steel cap, centred on a plain light grey studio background
trainingThe same bottle on a pale wooden gym floor beside a rolled towel, with a chalked hand reaching for it in low morning light
trailThe same bottle on a mossy granite rock at a forest trailhead in cool overcast light, with water drops on its surface
morning routineThe same bottle on a marble kitchen counter in morning light beside a ceramic coffee cup and a bowl of citrus fruit
commuteThe same bottle in a car cup holder with a sunlit desert highway blurred through the windscreen
city carryA hand holding the same bottle up on a city pavement with blurred shopfronts and passers-by behind
One approved product frame and five moments a client could test. Each frame generates in about a minute. Choosing the moments and assembling the set is an afternoon. Read the pitch playbook →

Say what it cost. If the set took an afternoon, that fact is the argument. It tells the client what each extra asset will cost once the system is running.

Pitch every name on your new-business list. Speculative work stops being rationed when a set costs an afternoon. When you win, nothing is thrown away. The workflow built for the pitch produces the account's work.

What you can sell

What can you sell to your clients?

Agencies sell three kinds of work through us, each with its own scale and its own rhythm. All three run on a Creative Workflow: the client's brand guidelines, claims and formats, set up once and approved once. A campaign page, built with Instant Studio Campaigns, is added when the personal details have to come from the people themselves.

A personal video for every name.

From a data export we produce a video for each name, for example an insurer thanking its 500 top clients. When the details have to come from the people themselves, a campaign page collects them. Sun Life's insurance agents made more than 5,000 that way in about two weeks, and Sun Life's lawyers reviewed one workflow, not 5,000 videos.

Data export or campaign pageApproved onceSun Life

Read the case

The split

What stays with the agency?

Everything the client sees. Instant Studio is a managed AI creative production company that works as a production layer under the agency. The relationship, the strategy, the creative direction, the judgement on quality and the invoice stay yours. Our name appears nowhere in the delivery unless you want it there.

The agencyInstant Studio
Owns the client relationship and the briefBuilds the Creative Workflow: brand rules, claims, people and formats, set up once
Sets the creative direction and approves the conceptsSends each piece of work to the AI model best suited to it
Judges the results and signs off qualityRuns the checks on every piece and keeps the record
Presents to the client and sends the invoiceDelivers finished work that meets the spec, under your name

How it works

How does an engagement run?

01

The brief.

The client's brief comes to us through you, with the advertising plan it has to serve.

02

Your creative direction.

Directions, references, tone and shot list. Your team's judgement, before anything is produced.

03

Approved concepts.

The client signs off the concepts. Disagreement is cheapest here, because nothing has been made yet.

04

Brand and legal rules.

Guidelines, claims and disclosures go into the Creative Workflow once. The client's legal team approves the workflow once, and every piece it produces inherits that approval.

05

Production.

The run. Our team operates the workflow, or your team does on ToolKit, under your direction.

06

Your review.

You judge the results. A correction reruns one step of the workflow, so saying no stays cheap.

07

Client approval.

The final cut, presented by you, in your name.

Two ways to work

Who runs production?

Our team or yours. The same Creative Workflows serve both, and an agency can move between them as the account grows.

01

Our team runs it.

You brief us and approve the finished work. Production runs behind your delivery.

02

Your team runs it.

Your people operate the Creative Workflows on ToolKit, our platform, with the client's brand rules already in place.

ToolKit is for enterprise teams, and access comes with an engagement. Get in touch to see how we can enable it for your team.

toolkit
A Creative Workflow in ToolKit. One per client: brand rules, claims, people and formats, set up once.

Compliance

What do you say when legal is in the room?

The person who stops a volume programme is rarely the marketing lead. It is brand governance or legal.

Bring the review model with you. Brand rules, approved claims and disclosures go into the workflow once. The people who would otherwise review every asset approve the workflow once, with a person checking at concept, first results and final delivery. The full model is in the brand governance specification.

Sun Life · case One sign-off More than 5,000 videos, four regulated markets

For New Year, Sun Life's insurance agents in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia each made a greeting video with their own face and voice in it, beside the brand ambassador's likeness, from one campaign page, in about two weeks. More than 5,000 went out. Sun Life's lawyers reviewed one workflow, not 5,000 videos.

Read the case

The first engagement

How does the first engagement start?

01

One market, fixed price.

One client, one market, an agreed number of pieces and a fixed price.

02

Three measures.

The cost per finished piece and the time from brief to live measure the production line. One measure of results comes from the client's own objective.

03

Nothing thrown away.

If the pilot converts, the workflow built to win the account produces the account's work.

Playbook

How to pitch volume content to a client: open on their numbers, bring examples in their brand, answer the compliance question in the room, scope one market.

Read the playbook

Let's get started

Bring the client you want to win.
We build the pitch set.

We build the examples for your pitch and scope the pilot behind them. You keep the client and the creative direction. Production runs with our team, or with yours on ToolKit.